Ibn Taymiyyah says: "Allah establishes the just state, even if it is a state of disbelief, and He does not establish the unjust state, even if it is a Muslim state."

The Shaykh : Here, a questioner says: Ibn Taymiyyah said: "Allah establishes the just state, even if it is a state of disbelief, and He does not establish the unjust state, even if it is a Muslim state." We ask for an explanation of this statement, along with the presentation of the scriptural evidence for it and your opinion on it?
I do not have this statement by Ibn Taymiyyah at hand, but the noble verse that says: Some scholars of Qur'anic exegesis mentioned this meaning that the questioner is quoting from Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him). This is because injustice is the cause of the ruin of lands and the destruction of people. If a nation or state is in a state of disbelief but rules with justice among its people—this justice that people know by their innate natural disposition—then if they rule by it, their state will be established and will last for a long period, and history testifies to this. On the contrary, if the rulers rebel and oppress the people, that becomes a cause for the rise of revolutions and what is called today military coups. The situation in those lands will not stabilize until the people of a single nation destroy one another, and that becomes a cause for opening the way for another nation to enslave them. There is no doubt that Islam came with everything that contains good for this world and the Hereafter, including the command to be just and the command to establish the fixed Qur'anic punishments among people. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) even said: And this is nothing but the realization of justice in the Muslim society. If we assume a Muslim society that does not establish the ruling of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) on earth, and that is something that cannot be established except by establishing justice among the Muslims, then the state of that society cannot stand; because at that time it is ruling by other than what Allah has revealed, and whoever rules by other than what Allah has revealed exposes his nation and his state to collapse.
This is what I have at hand now as an answer to this first question.